linux-stable.git/drivers/video/console, branch linux-2.6.20.y

[PATCH] softcursor.c: avoid unaligned accesses

2006-12-08T16:29:07+00:00

Fix some possible unaligned accesses when accessing fields of 'image'
pointer.  Indeed this pointer was obtained by allocating a block of memory
that embeds a temporary array plus an image structure.  The temporary
buffer was located at the start of the allocated block and depending on its
size, the image structure which comes right after can be unaligned.

For example when using mini fonts (4x6) (cursor's width is 4 and its height
is 6) the temporary buf size is 6 bytes.

Therefore this patch moves the image structure to the start of the block
and moves the temporary buffer right after.  It makes 'image' pointer
always aligned and since the tempo buf is a buffer of char, it's always
correctly aligned as well.

It also fixes the file header alignement.

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu 
Cc: James Simmons 
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] constify and annotate __read_mostly in vgacon.c and fbmem.c

2006-12-08T16:29:06+00:00

- annotate some variables from vgacon.c and fbmem.c as __read_mostly
- move the mask[] array in fb_set_logo_truepalette() into the .rodata section

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] various fbdev files: mark structs and array read-only

2006-12-08T16:29:05+00:00

- move some structs and arrays to the read-only (.rodata) section

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller 
Acked-by: James Simmons 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

WorkStruct: make allyesconfig

2006-11-22T14:57:56+00:00

Fix up for make allyesconfig.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells

IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers

2006-10-05T14:10:12+00:00

Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells 
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)

[PATCH] fbcon:: make 3 functions static

2006-10-03T15:04:12+00:00

This patch makes three needlessly global functions static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk 
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] fbcon: Honor the return value of device_create_file

2006-10-03T15:04:10+00:00

Check the return value of device_create_file().  If return is 'fail', remove
attributes by calling device_remove_file().

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] fbcon: Remove cursor timer if unused

2006-10-03T15:04:10+00:00

Remove the cursor timer (cursor flashing) on the following conditions:

- if vc is in KD_GRAPHICS mode, ie, when X owns the console
- if vc is blanked

This misbehavior was exposed by Dave Jones.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] fbcon: Use persistent allocation for cursor blinking

2006-10-03T15:04:10+00:00

Every time the console cursor blinks, we do a kmalloc/kfree pair.  This
patch turns that into a single allocation.

This allocation was the most frequent kmalloc I saw on my test box.

[adaplas]
Per Alan's suggestion, move global variables to fbcon's private structure.
This would also avoid resource leaks when fbcon is unloaded.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones 
Acked-by: Alan Cox 
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

video: Disable vgacon for SuperH.

2006-09-27T04:20:22+00:00

We don't support this on SH, so just disable it..

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt